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- From: dsroberts@beckman.com
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- Subject: Re: Technical idiots
- Message-ID: <1992Aug28.114155.979@beckman.com>
- Date: 28 Aug 92 18:41:55 GMT
- References: <920826004543.5b3@VESTA.SUNQUEST.COM>
- Organization: Beckman Instruments
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- In article <920826004543.5b3@VESTA.SUNQUEST.COM>, <GAVRON@VESTA.SUNQUEST.COM> writes:
- > Jon Pinkley pointed out that Bill Hancock is a fool.
- > I'm sorry to disappoint Jon, but the "Winner of the DECUS Award
- > for Technical Excellence" is an idiot. I had the displeasure once
- > of being in the same room and hearing his banal, content-less
- > amusing stories-for-idiots.
- >
- > Bill Hnacock fills the halls with amusing drivel, and crowds
- > like him, and he doesn't know shit, but that's ok, because
- > he's amusing.
- >
- > I may lose consulting $$$ off of this, but at least when I got
- > my last paycheck, I _knew_ it was because I knew what I was
- > talking about, not because I was a dickless technically incompetent
- > storytelling slob.
- >
- > Ehud
- > (no, it's not a raw nerve; Bill is a talentless Mac Weenie)
- >
- > this mail message copyright 1992 ACES Inc., all rights reserved
-
- Gee, Ehud, don't mince words, tell us how you really feel :-)
-
- Actually, I've been thinking about this for a few days, and while I agree that
- there is relatively little CONTENT to Hancocks presentations (I even attended
- his PSS when I was fairly new to DECUS, and came away knowing little more than
- I went into it with), I wonder if anyone could point out examples of him
- actually being consistantly WRONG. Yes, his jokes are banal. He displays a
- real attitude that I would not desire in a consultant during his talks, but
- what has he been wrong about? What specifically makes him "technically
- incompetent"?
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